Back at it with that music dawgs. I somehow got the phrase Off-Brand Loyalty in my head while getting off the F train at the Delancey Street station. From that point on I knew it was a song I had to create. So that’s just what I did.

When All The Clothes You Purchase You Get Selected Imperfect Stretch Dollars to Their Furthest but You Still Know How to Work It You got that Off-Brand Loyalty You got that Off-Brand Loyalty When all the clothes you wear go a hole or a tear And you Rock it like, “Yeah, that’s supposed to be there!” You got that Off-Brand Loyalty You got that Off-Brand Loyalty

Verse 1 Yeah I rock Polo but it got an Extra L in Not an Extra Large, they jus didn’t check the spelling Got a Bathing Ape that’s afraid to use soap But nobody gotta know, I can’t afford to look broke Gotta stay fly, in any given situation Rock the knock-offs, you know the cheap imitations But, I don’t usually share this information A little loose, what I’m wearing isn’t custom The pants I bought, always gotta readjust ’em ‘Cause it’s missing a zipper and a button I hit the thrift shop, don’t got diamonds in my wrist watch Fake it ’til you make it because you gotta floss in hip-hop I’m doin’ it like this I hit Canal Street To get them four striped sneakers for my brown feet The bottom of my foot looks like ground beef I walk a lot a yo I really get around chief

When All The Clothes You Purchase You Get Selected Imperfect Stretch Dollars to Their Furthest but You Still Know How to Work It You got that Off-Brand Loyalty You got that Off-Brand Loyalty When all the clothes you wear go a hole or a tear And you Rock it like, “Yeah, that’s supposed to be there!” You got that Off-Brand Loyalty You got that Off-Brand Loyalty

Verse 2 (Excuse me is that Coogi?) It is if that’s what you see In the Eye of the beholder like beauty Well then sure absolutely, by the way you a cutie Are you a model, because your Couture Juicy At least that’s what it says on your jogging pants booty Beg Pardon, Are those rubies in you jewelry Struck by all that gleams, but nothing’s what it seems Like the city never sleeps, but still the city of dreams For every pot there’s a lid, every plot has a scheme So you and me baby we a perfect team (You Sure?) At least the way that I see it (is that right) Babygirl I guarantee i (believe it) Tell Me what you want girl I got it Anything you need girl I promise Shopping sprees at Neman Marcus Girl I got these jeans at Target

When All The Clothes You Purchase You Get Selected Imperfect Stretch Dollars to Their Furthest but You Still Know How to Work It You got that Off-Brand Loyalty You got that Off-Brand Loyalty When all the clothes you wear go a hole or a tear And you Rock it like, “Yeah, that’s supposed to be there!” You got that Off-Brand Loyalty You got that Off-Brand Loyalty You got that Off-Brand Loyalty You got that Off-Brand Loyalty

A while back rapper B.O.B. was in a war of words with acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson over the matter of whether or not the Earth was flat. The rapper put out a single called “Flatline” as a dis-track because Dr. Tyson stated that B.O.B. could hold to a refuted, near ancient scientific belief if he chose to. B.O.B. claims there is a vast conspiracy to fool the world into believing it is round to reinforce a heliocentric understanding of the universe. Somehow he believes that it’s beneficial that a mysterious organization of pagans(?), sun worshippers(?) fool us into thinking the Sun is the center of the universe, invoking Helios or Apollo the Greek/Roman god of the sun, as opposed to an Earth-centric or geo-centric view that was upheld until it was disputed and disproven in the middle ages.

In that spirit, I came up with songs that cast doubt on ideas and ideologies that society holds fast to for fear that someone in the shadows wants us to believe these things only to do us harm in some way. For some reason.

The first song I made was about the Anti-Vaccine movement. It Features Sesame Street’s Elmo and the former US Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy.

The second track was about Aluminum Foil hats and how they protect us from the government plans to control our brains or whatever.

Verse
Who you voting for, You don’t know what the answer is
You ain’t passionate about none of these candidates
You don’t think any of these clowns are electable
But still need to take the time out your schedule
They don’t really care about the electorate
All they’re concerned about is a super delegate
And I’m getting tired of the rhetoric
There’s no need for me to try to put it delicate
I don’t fuck with none of them, like I’m celibate
Write my own name in, for the hell of it
My grandma said she got blast with fire hoses
I said thanks, that’s why I went out and voted
She likes to talk about the “Ballot or the Bullet”
I’m in the booth so I might as well pull it
Had to get batteries for the remote
Guess I’ll go MEH the vote

Chorus
All my life I hads to Fight
Gonna exercise my rights
can’t just kick it with your folks
Go out and MEH the Vote
Choose the lesser of the evils
One’s a snake and one’s a weasel
All these guys are fucking jokes
Go out and MEH the Vote
All my life I hads to Fight
Gonna exercise my rights
can’t just kick it with your folks
Go out and MEH the Vote
Choose the lesser of the evils
One’s a snake and one’s a weasel
All these guys are fucking jokes
Go out and MEH the Vote

I made this other song back in the fall for the Ben Carson campaign that’s not really meant to help, but was a parody of a few songs out there that were genuinely trying to make the good doctor with the gifted hands be a viable candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

So I’m posting these way late in the game. A while ago Black Twitter was fed up with the removal of soul from our popular music by YouTube singers who do covers that slow down and snooze up songs like “Formation” by Beyonce and “Work” by Rihanna. In that spirit our equal and opposite reaction to this phenomena was to take songs sacred to mainstream pop fans and do trap covers of them.

Here are a few that I did.

We all know and love Bon Jovi‘s hit, “Living on a Prayer” but I figured why not “improve” it with Racthet Drums?

As for George Michael‘s classic song “Faith“, why not see what happens when you take the Kanye West 808s and Heartbreaks approach?

So, The Black Guy Who Tips, among my favorite podcasts, requested a logo for this idea for a political campaign to motivate people to vote in these 2016 party primaries. This campaign is targeted at those in the electorate who feel dispassionate about any of the candidates they have to choose. from. We know we earned the right to vote through the hard work and efforts of our ancestors in the civil rights movement. So I whipped up a design.

Here’s my drawing for the Draw Me A Marvel art jam on the Comic Book Resources Forums, where participants are tasked to reimagine Marvel characters as one of the four horsemen of the Mutant Apocalypse. I got Drax the Destroyer as cosmic character that’s people might know from the Guardians of the Galaxy movie from a few years back.